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Risk Pools Programme (RPP)
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
To support a parametric (index-based) weather risk insurance pool that will provide participating African countries with predictable, quick-disbursing funds with which to implement pre-defined contingency response plans in the case of a drought.
Support to the Global Agriculture and Food Security Programme (GAFSP)
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
To improve agricultural productivity in developing countries and to increase farmers' access to markets whilst increasing the economic resilience of poor people globally
Building Resilience and adapting to climate change in Malawi
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
This programme aims to strengthen the resilience of poor households in Malawi to withstand current and projected weather and climate-related shocks and stresses. This will in turn halt the annual cycle of humanitarian crises that blights people’s lives, harms poverty reduction efforts and swallows up resources. The UK will invest up to £90.5 million over eight years [2018-2027] to provide direct benefits to 1.7 million poor and vulnerable people in Malawi [approximately 300,000 households].The programme also supports environmental and resilience outcomes through reducing deforestation directly and indirectly.
Hunger Safety Net Programme (HSNP Phase 3)
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
To reduce poverty, hunger and vulnerability by providing 133,000 of the poorest households (approximately 798,000 people) in Kenya's arid and semi-arid lands with cash transfers and up to an additional 750,000 households (approximately 4,500,000 people) during drought emergencies. In addition, this final phase of the programme will ensure a transition of the Hunger Safety Net Programme to full Government of Kenya ownership and financing to guarantee the sustainability of the programme after a UK exit. The programme aims to graduate targeted HSNP households out of poverty and improve the nutrition status of pregnant mothers and children below 1,000 days of age.
Rohingya Response and National Resilience Programme (RRNRP)
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
To improve protection and quality of humanitarian assistance for the Rohingya population living in refugee camps in southern Bangladesh, so that they can live full and meaningful lives. This to be done peacefully living alongside host communities, for whom the impacts of the crisis need to be reduced and development opportunities provided. The programme marks a shift in FCDO’s (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office) response to the crisis by providing longer term, predictable support to address the needs of both refugees and host communities. Whilst the focus will be on sustaining and improving the humanitarian operation through provision of quality basic services, there will be a specific focus on stimulating the economy, rehabilitating the environment, and promoting stability for both populations’ benefit. The programme aim to support COVID-19 and early emergency recovery support for national resilience by providing support to the national COVID-19 and disaster response.
Global Land Governance programme
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
The goal of the Land Facility is to improve stability, inclusive growth and responsible investment by promoting more effective, efficient and equitable rural and urban land governance. The programme will help build basic capacity and systems and mobilise the necessary political support, so governments can implement and resource sustained land governance reform, leading to improved tenure security for all. Improved tenure security will contribute to a number of climate benefits; transformational change, reduced deforestation, increased resilience and sustainable land management practices. It will run for 7 years and will initially work in up to 10 countries in Africa and South East Asia depending on size and needs.
Exiting Poverty in Rwanda
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
The Exiting Poverty in Rwanda Programme will provide support to the Government of Rwanda to help create and scale up a more sustainable, self-financed and inclusive system for supporting the most vulnerable, helping the poor manage shocks and enabling more people to sustainably exit poverty. The programme will provide financial aid to the Government of Rwanda to scale up provision of Social Protection to the poorest. It will put a stronger emphasis on sustainability and on working towards a clear exit strategy from the Social Protection Sector in the future. The focus of the programme therefore is strengthening government systems to build effectiveness, government ownership and long-term sustainability of the programme. This phase of support is expected to deliver the impact of extreme poverty eradicated, and poverty levels reduced, with an outcome of the resilience of vulnerable men, women and children and of the Social Protection systems that help sustain them enhanced.
Building Resilience and an Effective Emergency Refugee Response (BRAER)
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
The programme will provide emergency life-saving assistance to the large influxes of refugees arriving in Uganda, build resilience among refugees and their host communities to reduce Uganda’s humanitarian burden, and deliver on UK Humanitarian Reform priorities. It will support the UK in its leadership role to develop new approaches to protracted crises and in delivering on the New York Declaration’s Comprehensive Refugee Response Framework, with regional and global impact.
Productive Social Safety Net Programme in Tanzania Phase II & III
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
To support the Productive Social Safety Net Programme - Phase II & III, which will reach 1.3m households, which are the poorest 15%, with conditional cash transfers, and green public works. The programme aims to improve the resilience and opportunities of the extreme poor by reducing the depth of the income poverty, improving food consumption and increasing their resilience to climate-related shocks. FCDO will also support the Government of Tanzania to initiate a sustainable nationwide social protection scheme.
Modern Slavery - Supporting Global Action to End Modern Slavery
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
To develop new approaches to tackle modern slavery and human trafficking across a range of sectors in high prevalence countries. This programme focuses on thematic priorities of eradicating forced labour in supply chains, tackling the worst forms of child labour, and ending the exploitation of women and girls, and it will support and empower survivors of modern slavery across all these priorities. The programme supports bilateral programmes in high prevalence countries and contributes to multilateral organisations on global policy and advocacy work. The programme will also develop research and evidence on different forms of modern slavery to inform future interventions. This programme contributes toward SDG 8.7 to eradicate forced labour, end modern slavery and human trafficking and secure the prohibition and elimination of the worst forms of child labour.
Building sustainable anti-corruption action in Tanzania (BSAAT)
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
To reduce the role of corruption as a barrier to poverty reduction in Tanzania by improving the capacity and coordination of the criminal justice system in corruption cases, improving integrity and governance in the private sector, and influencing social change through research and media.
Better Assistance in Crises (Social Protection)
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
The programme will help poor and vulnerable people to cope better with crises and meet their basic needs through more effective social assistance in contexts of recurrent shocks, protracted conflict and forced displacement. It will address the bottlenecks at global and country level that prevent greater use of social protection approaches in crises, through expert advisory services for country support, capacity building, learning, coordination and high-level policy influencing, and high quality research that strengthens the evidence on what works in different contexts.
Shock Response Programme (SRP)
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
The SRP will strengthen government systems in the Sahel so they can better anticipate and mitigate the impacts of severe shocks, including climatic shocks such as drought, that result in recurrent food insecurity. Effective since 2014 with an initial focus on the design and introduction of new foundational, national systems that respond to the impact of climate change, the programme will strengthen emerging government-led systems to be more robust and expand their reach. The programme will invest in early warning systems, strengthening access to climate data to detect deteriorating conditions earlier on, and it will build people’s resilience by helping them to increase and diversify their household income so they can better cope when shocks occur.
Stability and Security Programme
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
Stability and Security Programme will work to build stability in Somalia. It will do so by deepening understanding of the core underlying causes and drivers of conflict and instability. It will address them in ways that help widen and deepen the political settlement (agreements between different political actors), at multiple levels, and help build resilience to conflict and violence when these political settlement processes inevitably come under stress.
Ethiopia Crises 2 Resilience (EC2R)
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
The Ethiopia Crises to Resilience (EC2R) programme is aimed to alleviate the impact of the conflict and drought to the poorest Ethiopians. The programme tries to address urgent humanitarian needs while maintaining the delivery of essential services across the country.
Security and Justice Programme 2
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
Security and Justice Programme (SJP) ultimately aims to help to enhance public safety in Nepal and improve people’s trust in a key institution: the police. It will contribute to increased responsiveness of security and justice providers, particularly gender-based violence (GBV) and increased prevention of GBV and wider public safety problems. Understanding and influencing different social and organisational norms will run through the whole programme to address the prevalence of violence against women and girls. The programme also has a particular focus on the organisational development of the Nepal Police, investigation capability, problem-solving community policing and better climate-resilient solar-powered infrastructure for service delivery, notably police women and children service centres (WCSCs).
Ukraine Economic Stabilisation Programme
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
HM Government will guarantee a further $3bn in World Bank lending to the Government of Ukraine over 2024-27. This will support the financing of the Government of Ukraine's budget, by increasing the amount that the World Bank can lend to Ukraine. The support represents the UK's contribution to a wider financing commitment from international donors which helped unlock Ukraine's IMF programme in March 2023, effective for four years. The package marks a shift from ad-hoc unpredictable funding to structured multi-year assistance, tied to the broader objectives of creating the conditions to win the peace through recovery, reform and growth.
ONE Caribbean Fund Facility
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
to promote sustainable development in the Caribbean by identifying and delivering ambitious initiatives across four areas: (a) climate adaptation, disaster risk management and resilience; (b) citizen security; (c) private sector engagement; and (d) food security. The programme will achieve this through supporting, influencing and leveraging the Inter-American Development Bank’s (IDB) recently launched ‘ONE Caribbean’ regional strategic framework. ONE Caribbean will be directly implemented in the IDB borrowing member countries in the region (Barbados, Belize, Guyana, Jamaica, Suriname, The Bahamas, and Trinidad and Tobago) as well as indirectly implemented in six Eastern Caribbean countries through an agreement in place between IDB and the Caribbean Development Bank (a successful example of collaboration between MDBs).
UK Humanitarian Support in Palestine (2026-2029)
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
This programme aims to deliver the UK’s high ambition to provide humanitarian support to Palestine, by supporting vulnerable civilians in Gaza and the West Bank and addressing their urgent humanitarian and protection needs. Interventions are designed to save lives, alleviate suffering, and prepare for early recovery where possible, while maintaining flexibility in a volatile context. This aligns to humanitarian principles and the FCDO’s Humanitarian Framework. The programme builds on lessons and evidence from its predecessor, which achieved strong results after being scaled up in response to the war (Oct 23). Based on this learning, we will maximise the impact of our spend by focusing on priority areas, in line with needs and UK expertise. This includes maintaining a strong contribution to the health response.
Strengthening Societal and Economic Resilience in Jordan (SSERJ)
UK - Foreign, Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO)
The programme will expand contributory social insurance schemes which will allow more informal jobs to be formalised. It will also support an expansion of tax-financed social assistance schemes, seeking greater coherence between national systems and those supporting refugees to improve efficiency. Frontloaded financial support will demonstrate proof of concept which, alongside technical support, is appropriate assistance to a Low Middle Income Country. A comprehensive sustainability strategy and exit plan for UK support will be developed during the inception period and monitored throughout implementation of this programme.
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